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New York, NY
Joined March 2009
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
Meet Jeremy Lewis. This piece of shit is responsible for about 9,500,000 deaths of innocent people. He illegally ordered cuts to USAID as part of the Musk-led DOGE scam but he never even signed his onboarding paperwork and wasn’t cleared to act on behalf of the government
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Tom Harkin and Josh Turek together seem like a pretty unstoppable combo if you ask me.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
Among the disappointments that led to the eminent threat to America's democracy I feel most betrayed by the Supreme Court. That institution was to be our failsafe against waves of delirium and fascist irrationality. Instead SCOTUS became an ally to hasten lunacy. – at Edgewood, KY
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
Fun fact: in 2020 Florida Republicans paid (illegally) a man with the same last name as the Democrat incumbent to run in an effort to confuse voters and they actually succeeded. The Democrat lost by 32 votes and the sham candidate received 6,000 votes. Election was not overturned.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
The @GOP must be thrilled that 11 days before elections, we learn that the Trump family secretly orchestrated a deal to allow Russians to drill Alaska in exchange for a $25 billion "investment" funneled through their proxies.
And another. Trump isn’t just betraying Ukraine to the Kremlin, he’s selling out America too.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska. According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary. Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine. The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives. The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia. According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate. The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing. The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company. Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same. ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Good thing Amy Acton's rapist stepfather is dead because he'd be speaking at the next trump rally in Ohio.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
Backfiring on him spectacularly as he deserves.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
Here’s the thing: Vivek is not an outlier. He’s not an accident. He’s the embodiment of the right wing agenda, their brand of politics come to life. Of course he’s cruel. Of course he’s craven. Of course he’s an unrepentant asshole. That’s their entire brand.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is one slimy, evil, power hungry scumbag.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
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Vivek Ramaswamy is not fit to lead. Watch our new ad.
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Vivek is a ghoul.
.@amyactonoh on Vivek Ramaswamy's abhorrent campaign ad: "I won't normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is 'something I'm just complaining about,' who today, just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect and sexual abuse... The words our leaders use matter and I think it's gonna take courage right now from all of us to stop normalizing this sort of rhetoric."
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
This is one of the finest, most powerful television ads I've every seen. Do American a favor and share this everywhere. Heart, not policy papers. Love, not hate. Hope, not fear. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Texas was built by hope. By people who had no business believing — but believed anyway. To every Texan who’s ever wondered if anyone in power is paying attention: We are taking our state back. Because a little bit of hope is a dangerous thing.
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, nobody should support this kind of deception. They created a fake pamphlet to spark trans outrage and sent it to every home in Texas. Then their paid shills continued the outrage on social media. Politics is broken.
Hey Texas, you know that fake trans mailer that went out to hundreds of thousands of Texans today? The one that the org itself didn’t send? But that all the right wing influencers received & had social media posts ready to publish where they feign outrage? /1
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Matthew Pestorius retweeted
the reason this women is calling her own daughter a liar is because her husband sexually abused amy as a child, and then donna stood by him until the day he died. amy hasn’t spoken to her since 1978. naturally, this is who the party of “protecting children” gets to do an ad
BOMBSHELL: Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s own mother urges voters not to vote for her daughter. “My name is Donna Arthur and I’m Amy Acton’s mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America. I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent—and it’s not easy for a mother to say this—but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and she can’t help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn’t doing that. Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.” That’s one hell of an October surprise.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Acton's mother lost custody of her children after years of documented issues, including time spent living in a tent and a spouse who sexually abused her daughter Amy (Acton). Amy Acton's brother has also confirmed this story. x.com/amyactonoh/sta… wkbn.com/news/local-new… time.com/collections/co… vindyarchives.com/news/2019/aug/… 614now.com/2020/culture/c… actonforgovernor.com/meet-amy/
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OK. This country needs to wake up to the psyop happening in this country. Spewing lies in hopes it will help you beat a candidate is the new R strategy. The TV ads are repulsive and misleading and IT IS ALL THEY’VE GOT. DON’T FALL FOR THIS BS
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